The Sun Journal’s series about proficiency-based learning has been very interesting. I have one question for Superintendent William Zima who thinks that PBL is very successful. How many students are meeting the state expectations in English, math and science? The Maine Educational Assessments measure the progress of students. Last year, MEA reported that Zima’s district […]
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D. Holcomb: Bureaucrats take over education
This is in response to “Commissioner: Test helps identify, aid districts” (April 19). Tom Desjardin, Maine’s acting education commissioner, needs to do some homework on assessments. The new standardized tests have hijacked the curriculum and testing in schools. These tests are aligned with Common Core. The tests did not come from teachers and educators. The […]
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D. Holcomb: Putting students into boxes
This is in response to a Bangor Daily News article printed in the Sun Journal, “Standardized test gets pushback” (March 2). Finally, parents and students are finding out the dangers of the Common Core national standards’ scheme since this is the year when standard assessments hit the fan. The testing seems to have more to […]
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D. Holcomb: Government created crisis
After reading the Sun Journal’s editorial, “Regulation usually rooted in real problems” (Dec. 8), I would like to expand on the statement made about the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that intends to stop big banks from taking risks that led to the fiscal crisis in 2008. In my opinion, banks were required to take risks based […]